At the beginning of the season, some said this team was weaker than last year's. You could make a fair argument up until the trade deadline of this year, when the Pens brought in three former Stanley Cup winners.

Around that same time, they also brought in a new coach with a new attitude that the players seemed to respect.

In honor of a 2008 Stanley Cup Final rematch between the Red Wings and Penguins, let's compare the 2007-08 Penguins with the 2008-09 Penguins.

Note, the following information is mainly statistics—it's hard to make visual comparrisions with intangible data.